LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Logical Consequence, Possible World, Implicature
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Semantics: focuses on those aspects of meaning that are independent of context , i. e. , the language users and the situations in which language is used. Pragmatics: focuses on aspects of meaning that depend on, or interact with, context. But the sentence could be understood as an offer to have juice; or a request not to have wine; or It all depends on the context where the sentence it used. Pragmatics: who the speaker is changes the meaning, and where here" is also changes the meaning. Pragmatics: you, the viewer, are here (relative to the proportions on the map) Everyone in the room is listening, everyone on campus is listening you are most likely not talking about everyone in the world. Syntactic knowledge: that works she at home? is an ungrammatical sentence is part of the unconscious syntactic knowledge of the native speakers of english.
